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While the battle in Congress rages on over the Farm Bill, and the partisan divide widens over just who should get the most taxpayer funded welfare, I have been living a rather interesting life in direct contrast to all that the Farm Bill represents.

FreedomWorks hosted another grassroots training and networking opportunity for over sixteen thousand people. Free The People 2013 was held this past week at the USANA Amphitheater in Salt Lake City, Utah. FreedomWorks described the event as:
Under the stars in Salt Lake City, Free the People 2013 is an event celebrating and inspiring the American entrepreneur. An all-star lineup of conservative icons will inspire the crowd to unleash America's innovative spirit, rein in government's meddlesome bureaucracy and restore the American dream.

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Lachlan Markay, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon joins me to discuss OFA’s big dollar push for Obamacare, the Obama dministration’s efforts to blackmail insurance companies, and how our family’s food bill would increase a whopping $200 a month if we were on the SNAP food stamp program.
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This past week more than two dozen Democratic members of congress decided to compete in the SNAP Challenge and in their words "call attention to the necessity of the program" while also showing how difficult it is to eat on the average of $31.50 per person, per week allocated under the SNAP program.

Illinois, like other states, is considering expanding its Medicaid program as envisioned under Obamacare. Doing so takes money that America doesn't have to provide bad health insurance to young, healthy people who don't need it, for the benefit of the people with the best lobbyists.

Keynesianism is still not working.The central idea of the dominant economic philosophy in Washington, DC, is that when the private economy fails to produce enough demand, the government can and should step in to take up the economic slack. It should have been long since discredited. But like other bad ideas, people keep bringing it back.

Every few hours, new facts emerge about the Boston Marathon bombers. While much has been made of their family, studies and religion, on Tuesday night we learned that American taxpayers helped finance them.Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism...

President Barack Obama declared April 9 “National Equal Pay Day,” – a date chosen to supposedly mark how long into the new year women have to work to match the male median wage of the previous year. Obama has repeatedly lamented that women earn “up to 23% less on average” than men do; it’s a good talking point for a president who captured more than half of votes cast by women in 2012.

Throughout American history, there have always been those that have fallen on hard times. From British poor laws, brought over by the colonists, to today’s myriad of welfare programs, America has a strong foundation of seeking to help those in need. However, what started as a very simple program has become convoluted, corrupted and ultimately fails to lift people from poverty to prosperity. While examples of government assistance failures abound, none may be so evident as that of the current situation in New Mexico.